About Rebecca Washlow

After leaving a challenging legal career, Rebecca moved to Costa Rica for pura vida and has made Nosara her home. Learning to surf later in life, Rebecca’s love for the sport and desire to improve has impacted her in the most positive of ways and brought her to Safari Surf School/Women’s Retreat as our marketing and event manager. Rebecca has been a yoga practitioner since 2003, certified in 2016 to teach and has traveled the world learning from various masters; we are pleased to share her skill set as our retreat yoga/meditation teacher.

About Costa Rica Women’s Program

This Womens all inclusive surf camp program is a labor of love, a passion of mine that I’ve wanted to bring to other women out there, not only to teach girls how to surf in the warm waters of Costa Rica but also, empower them to become better surfers both in and out of the water.I feel like my calling has always been to help mentor other women in some way and for me surfing is very similar to life…in the water there are ups and downs as there are in life. I feel like I not only teach women how to surf but I actually mentor to them on how to succeed; perhaps not just in the water but, outside of the water as well.

The mindset and commitment needed to paddle out into overhead surf with the fear of the unknown, lack of confidence or, whatever one might struggle with, is similar to the challenges in life like walking into their male dominated office workplace, a boardroom meeting or other demanding situations we women must face in our daily lives.My passion is to build my guests’ confidence level up bit by bit as the week moves on…pushing them outside of their comfort zones, driving them past their personal limitations…only to realize they can succeed after all. They just need the instruction, the motivation, the push, the support, the psychological breakthrough when the brain says and believes… “I can do this”. Its monumental to watch women transform while spending a week with us. It’s the most satisfying feeling in the world for me!